cut off by spamhaus free use?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Steve,

Thanks for the advice, more adjustments made....

Jeff Earickson

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Steve Freegard wrote:

> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:51:40 +0000
> From: Steve Freegard <steve.freegard at fsl.com>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: cut off by spamhaus free use?
> 
> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>
>> I've had false positive problems with spamcop in the past. 
>
> How recent was this?  They have apparently changed the way they build the 
> blacklist at the beginning of the year (see 
> http://www.dnsbl.com/2007/05/spamcop-bl-another-look-its-accurate.html) and 
> I've used it several times since and had no problems.
>
>> I put dnsbl.sorbs.net into action in sendmail this morning, appears to be 
>> ok.
>
> Yikes - personally I wouldn't touch SORBS, see 
> http://www.dnsbl.com/2007/07/sorbs-on-accuracy-rates-and-false.html and 
> http://dnsblresourcedata.googlepages.com/criticismfromsorbs
>
> Note that you also aren't using the recommended zone (according to the SORBS 
> admin) even though the SORBS site shows you the configuration for what you 
> have entered, apparently safe.dnsbl.sorbs.net is the zone to use...
>
> Cheers,
> Steve.
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